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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.”
― Guillermo del Toro

“...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.”
― Guillermo Del Toro, The Strain

“I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"

"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."

"To establish ties?"

"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--

Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry."

It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ."

Yes, that is so," said the fox.

But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince.

Yes, that is so," said the fox.

Then it has done you no good at all!"

It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
― A.A. Milne

“And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“What's done cannot be undone.”
― William Shakespeare , Macbeth

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“In one of those stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night. And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend...I shall not leave you.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka

“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
― John Milton

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”
― Charles Bukowski

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.”
― Erol Ozan

“People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh ...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“If I had known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“Rosa looked at us nervously and offered some parting words of support. “Be careful. I’d hate for this night to turn into a… what’s the opposite of a sausage fest?” Jerry answered, “A clamboree.” “Right. I’d hate for this to turn into a clamboree.” That felt like a good”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“Fuck you," said Czernobog. "Fuck you and fuck your mother and fuck the fucking horse you fucking rode in on. You will not even die in battle. No warrior will taste your blood. No one alive will take your life. You will die a soft, poor death. You will die with a kiss on your lips and a lie in your heart.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities